... envisioned in the Programme of action Olsen and Zeckhauser (1966) were the first to check whether there exist in the practice ofthe NATO some form of ‘exploitation’ by the small countries ofthe large ... consisting ofthe level of literacy, life expectancy and GDP per capita To get a clear picture of what might be at stake the gap variable is split up by the HDI of both the donor andthe HDI ofthe ... because of their small size and they have to take into account the nature ofthe aggregation technologies which apply to specific public goods (Sandler and Arce, 2002).4 In the production of the...
... on the length of trials We also tried using the length of trials and that ofthe ratio ofthe number of pending trials to the number of incoming trials instead of dummy variables thereon and ... one if the respondent graduated from college (COLLEGE); (8) the logarithm ofthe sum ofthe value of financial assets (bank and postal deposits and investment securities) andthe value of real ... the exception of Fabbri (2002), employ the stock of debt to examine the impact ofthe degree of judicial enforcement on loan size Most of these studies find the impact ofthe degree of judicial...
... share ofthe euro in the bond portfolios of large international fund managers, on the one hand, andthe rising share ofthe euro in the stock of international bonds, on the other Looking ahead, the ... ofthe roadshow to the execution ofthe final sale, through a bank syndicate, for about one-fifth ofthe issues Banks from Switzerland had a 15% market share Throughout the period, the bulk of ... Bookrunners fromthe euro area only 19% Bookrunners fromthe UK and other (mostly euro area) countries 11% Bookrunners from other countries 4% In continental Europe andthe City of London (or the UK)...
... delta, andthe Northern central, Southeast and Southern central coastal areas The total number of observations is of 1,150 firms The definition of a small and medium scale firm follows the current ... internal and external to the enterprise Of these, the abilities andthe personality characteristics of those who manage the enterprise are universally regarded as one ofthe most powerful sets of factors ... compliance efforts The rest are the volume of toxic chemical releases, the number of oil spills, volume of oil spills, andthe number of chemical spills King (2001) noted the environmental performance...
... intake and GC and OC Most of them have found a positive association (11 from 16 for GC and 11 from 18 for OC) particularly for OC, and in most of these studies the association is SS Overall theevidence ... al Nitrosamines and gastroesophageal cancer the metabolism of these chemical compounds and DNA repair potentially related to the risk of cancer, is also useful On the other hand, taking into ... one ofthe cohort studies reporting results[23-26,28], but in most of them the number of GC cases was too small For pickled and dried vegetables, studies found positive association but none of them...
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... mg of harpagoside per day in the treatment of knee and hip OA and moderate evidenceof efficacy for the use of powder when providing 60 mg of harpagoside daily in the treatment of spine, hip, and ... experimental design employed questions the clinical relevance and/ or safety of these functional ingredients The other interventions lacked scientific evidence either because of their rather poor ... According to these two scoring systems, the quality ofthe RCTs was highly heterogeneous Based on the OA score, the quality ofthe trials ranged from 33% to 100% (with a mean of 65 and a median of 67)...
... lacking for all other scales Two ofthe scales (CTAS and ATS) offered limited scientific evidence, andthe scientific evidence for one scale (METTS) was insufficient to assess the risk of early death ... that in the construction of triage scales, much ofthe information was deduced from studies performed in settings other than EDs Strengths and limitations The strength of this review ofthe scientific ... ascribed to the volume and quality ofthe scientific literature available Since all studies were observational, none oftheevidence came from randomized controlled trials, the “gold standard” for...
... Thursday before the public release ofthe IWS column Table Table shows that the IWS column offers a favorable sentiment on almost all of these stocks There is no other news on most of them Thus, IWS ... Wednesday, and then omit Wednesday fromthe analysis That is, we subtract Wednesday’s average and then divide by the same average to standardize these data The daily dummies are now different from ... associates, including the date, volume, and cost of each trade The time of each trade and profits are available only for the stockbrokers The IWS column mentioned 116 firms during the eight-month period...
... to their improvement of their environmental performance; and (3) their responses to the current environmental standards and policies andthe impacts on their economic competitiveness 25 With the ... for the high volume of waste water andthe high content of toxic At the time of writing, the Government decided to write off the outstanding debts of textile state-owned companies, including the ... than fully offset the costs of complying with them (the lower part ofthe CLD) Such ‘innovation offsets’, as one can call them, can not only lower the net costs of meeting environmental regulations,...
... case of let’s sit back and hope for the best Then there are others who deliberately not want to know anything about the activities ofthe company They want to study the “pure” movement ofthe ... features ofthe growth in sales and earnings: the rate of growth andthe stability ofthe growth Conscious Investor provides proprietary tools to measure both of these for thousands of companies ... put the two charts together, we see how they track each other Sometimes the price moves ahead ofthe earnings per share and sometimes it is the other way around But over time they move together...
... 100-fold andthe lifespan ofthe complex by 10-fold, as judged by koff The physiological chaperone cycle probably consists ofthe rapid binding ofthe N-terminus ofthe partner, regardless of whether ... enthalpy, independent ofthe buffer used in the experiment, and another term representing the contribution ofthe proton ionization ofthe buffer, which is multiplied by the number of protons that ... hypothesize that the protonated state ofthe chaperone initiates this cycle, whereas the deprotonated state occurs upon completion ofthe maturation process ofthe partner The nature ofthe signal...
... enzyme For the reduced form, the Soret band can be observed at 415 and 442 nm, and for the oxidized form at 403 and 422 nm The b–band can be seen at 517 nm andthe a–band at 547 nm and 603 nm The difference ... originating from heme c, with contributions fromthe formyl groups andfromthe geranyl side chain expected from heme a and a3 In addition to the signals ofthe hemes, the reorganization ofthe polypeptide ... different environment ofthe heme centers The difference signals observed at 442 nm and 603 nm can be assigned to the contributions ofthe hemes a and a3, with the position ofthe a-band showing a downshift...
... more ofthe flavor associated with the VAR literature mentioned earlier, and shifts the focus away fromthe precise timing ofthe policy actions.11 In addition, the assumption that the dates of ... spread between the future rate andthe Fed funds target on the last day of month s , The sum ofthe two is just the month-s average funds rate target minus the target on the ¯r ¯ last day of month ... non-trivial, so the change in the one-month futures rate is used when the target rate change occurs within three days ofthe end ofthe month, which was the case for five ofthe 42 changes in the sample...
... accorded of cial Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland publications The views stated herein are those ofthe authors and are not necessarily those ofthe Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland or ofthe Board ... recovery fromthe 2007 recession We measure the amplitude ofthe contraction by the percentage drop (from the peak) of quarterly RGDP We measure the recovery strength as the percentage change fromthe ... pattern: the recovery fromthe Great Contraction in the 1930s; the recovery after the recession ofthe early 1990s andthe present recovery The present recovery is strikingly more tepid than the 1990s...
... 205 and 215 nm, indicating that Rv1399c is composed of 22% of a-helices, 25% of b-strand and 39% of random coil The catalytic triad is located at the bottom of a small ˚ ˚ pocket, 20 A length and ... experimentally Indeed, the presence of Arg213 along with the proximity ofthe charge relay Asp260 within the active site could be responsible for the modification ofthe catalytic properties ofthe ... by the serine alcoholate The shape ofthe titration curve ofthe catalytic histidine shows an apparent pKa value ofthe essential histidine estimated to 4.1 (Fig 2C) This acidic pKa shift of the...
... smoking and tobacco advertising But in their analysis, the brand experts at Interbrand offer a gloomy forecast for both the product andthe future ofthe brand “Sooner or later, the brand will ... important to the health ofthe planet and to people’s livelihoods The large areas of land where the native forest has disappeared could provide great value to people in the region and to the earth’s ... frequent and catastrophic as vegetation withers andthe burning sun sucks the last ofthe moisture out ofthe soil Debate rages in Australia about whether this drought is so severe because of climate...
... case of let’s sit back and hope for the best Then there are others who deliberately not want to know anything about the activities ofthe company They want to study the “pure” movement ofthe ... put the two charts together, we see how they track each other Sometimes the price moves ahead ofthe earnings per share and sometimes it is the other way around But over time they move together ... Investor There are two key features ofthe growth in sales and earnings: the rate of growth andthe stability ofthe growth Conscious Investor provides proprietary tools to measure both of these...
... evaluate, among other factors, the effect ofthe purchases of sovereign debt by the ECB andthe potential haircut on the banks’ holdings of Greek bonds Finally, the most frequent analysis ofthe CDS-bond ... where H 1C and H 2C are the complementaries of hypotheses H1 and H2, respecC tively, while H 31 and H 3C come fromthe complementary of hypothesis H3 If at least one ofthe last four hypotheses above ... between the CDS andthe bond Specifically, the degree of liquidity in the CDS market is proxied by the bid-ask spread ofthe CDS premium The higher this spread is, the lower the degree of liquidity...